Clay, N.Y. -- A Liverpool man and a 14-year-old boy were listed in serious condition this morning from injuries they suffered in a three-car crash on Sunday that killed the man's wife.

Lance Patterson, 35, and Justin Root, 14, were both in serious condition at Upstate Medical University, according to a nursing supervisor.

Patterson's 2-year-old daughter, Sophia, was upgraded to fair condition. Information was not readily available on Patterson's 10-year-old daughter who was in the car, Olivia Patterson, the supervisor said.

Meagen Patterson, 34, was killed Sunday after police say their Ford Escort was struck head-on about 1:30 p.m. by an intoxicated driver on Route 57 near Rosewood Place in Clay.

Muhammad Baqir, 42, of Grosvenor Road, Clay, was charged with vehicular manslaughter, driving while under the influence of drugs and third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

Baqir left his northbound lane and drove into the southbound car being driven by Lance Patterson, according to Onondaga County sheriff's deputies said

Meagen Patterson was thrown from the passenger's seat through the car's front windshield.

Baqir was driving erratically before the collision in a silver Chrysler Sebring, witnesses told sheriff's detectives.

Before driving into the Pattersons' car, Baqir sideswiped a Honda CRV being driven by Debbie Hall, 59, of Crystalwood Drive in Liverpool. Hall was not seriously injured.

Baqir and his passenger, Jessica Hayden, were uninjured in the crash.
Contact John O'Brien at jobrien@syracuse.com or 315-470-2187.